Thursday, October 25, 2007
Mine Tracer System Unveiled in Mingo County.
The new Mine Tracer Tracking system was unveiled this morning during a press conference which was held at the Southern West Virginia Resources Mine at Naugatuck.
The GPS unit allows the location of underground miners to be identified in the occurence of an accident inside of a underground mine. Minetracer becomes the eyes and ears for communicating and locating mining personnel.Information regarding the location of each miner at the time of the event will provide rescue teams the guidance needed for efficient rescue plans.
Each miner has the ability to communicate with the mine office by pressing an alert button on their personal mobile communicator. The mine office communicates with miners via wireless access points. Should power need to be cut off in the mine. Minetracer continues to operate for days on its integrated backup power.
The use of mesh communicators enable Mine Tracer to extend the wireless communicators range throughout the mine. Redundancies built into the system ensures no single point of failure.
" We are extremely pleased with the Mine Tracer System being available for our coal mines,"
stated Senate Majority Leader Truman Chafin. " This will provide a vital form of communication necessary to complete rescue attempts should a mine disaster occur."
" The safety of our miners is of the upmost concern for legislators within our state, and we are proud to be a part of this exciting announcement," commented the senator.
The state legislature passed a law requiring all underground miners to wear this device on their belt.
The GPS unit allows the location of underground miners to be identified in the occurence of an accident inside of a underground mine. Minetracer becomes the eyes and ears for communicating and locating mining personnel.Information regarding the location of each miner at the time of the event will provide rescue teams the guidance needed for efficient rescue plans.
Each miner has the ability to communicate with the mine office by pressing an alert button on their personal mobile communicator. The mine office communicates with miners via wireless access points. Should power need to be cut off in the mine. Minetracer continues to operate for days on its integrated backup power.
The use of mesh communicators enable Mine Tracer to extend the wireless communicators range throughout the mine. Redundancies built into the system ensures no single point of failure.
" We are extremely pleased with the Mine Tracer System being available for our coal mines,"
stated Senate Majority Leader Truman Chafin. " This will provide a vital form of communication necessary to complete rescue attempts should a mine disaster occur."
" The safety of our miners is of the upmost concern for legislators within our state, and we are proud to be a part of this exciting announcement," commented the senator.
The state legislature passed a law requiring all underground miners to wear this device on their belt.
# posted by Joe Kinzer @ 2:10 PM 
